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November 20, 2009 10:03 PM EST --
To presume that religion and civility can be, need to be, independent of each other is folly, false and fatally hurtful. Both have common aspects that are essential to common wellbeing; in these commonalities, . . .
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November 14, 2009 12:08 AM EST --
Consciousness and self-reflection have a talent for observing, connecting and drawing conclusions. The conscious process of connecting and drawing conclusions provides fertile ground for the imagination . . .
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November 06, 2009 08:50 PM EST --
Nuclear family is the avatar of communal authenticity, harmony. The schism of female/ male mutuality corrupts authenticity, civil culture. The family paradigm supposes parental mutuality/ authority; . . .
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October 31, 2009 01:39 AM EDT --
Self-consciousness and self-reflection are powerful virtues enabling self-advancement, but they also enable self-deception and advance bad judgment in habits of ego-culture. The proclivity of self-deception . . .
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October 24, 2009 06:59 PM EDT --
The “Mother Tree” is Earth-life’s vital source/ resource. From childhood we are taught “mighty oaks from little acorns grow”, and as we grow up we learn also that “little . . .
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October 23, 2009 02:13 AM EDT --
Fideism is the offensive offspring of ignorance and arrogance, which is identified with religion. By themselves, ignorance and arrogance are seriously tyrannical, but together their malice is compounded. . . .
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October 18, 2009 01:21 AM EDT --
Humanity is a quality that distinguishes the self-reflective person from animalkind, from bestiality. Inhumanity is behavior that is call bestial. Bestiality is a crudity, an insensitivity that is . . .
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October 16, 2009 09:25 PM EDT --
Fiction and fideism may be more popular than fact and faith, but the choosing of the first over the latter is with very different consequence. The evidence from today’s perspective . . .
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October 10, 2009 02:15 PM EDT --
The Christian heritage, its colonial overreach, its imperial politics, and its theology of dominion, justifies its claim in biblical canon. [WORD & WORLD, Theology for Christian Ministry, “Canon,” . . .
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September 26, 2009 07:33 PM EDT --
Truth be known, nothing in nature is free; everything has value, everything is at a price.
Evolution is nature’s Call ; Sacrament is the Godly Response of conscionable self-reflection. . . .
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September 19, 2009 11:09 PM EDT --
The evolution of symbiosis is nature’s pattern and God’s plan . In every least fiber and fabric of life, sustainability is a process and product of symbiosis. Evidence of science . . .
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September 13, 2009 01:35 AM EDT --
From SINGULARITY, energy diffusion (cosmic expansion) and particulate amalgamation (conscious life) co-evolve. The diffusion and expansion of energy (electromagnetism) and diversification of big-bang . . .
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September 06, 2009 01:50 AM EDT --
Cardinal William Joseph Levada, Prefect, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith cdf@cfaith.va
Dear Cardinal Levada:
Symbiotic life, whether male or female, is female/ male characterized. . . .
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August 30, 2009 04:40 AM EDT --
“Human ecology” is unthinkable except within the milieu of natural ecology. Bodily and spiritually (physically/ psychically) humankind is a self-reflective ecology within the greater ecology . . .
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August 23, 2009 12:39 AM EDT --
An understanding of "reciprocity", the correlation (mutuality) of “the natural” and “the spiritual”, can enlighten us to live more faithfully to nature and more lovingly toward . . .
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August 16, 2009 02:04 AM EDT --
Every living cell carries in common life’s genetic “grammar”, including human cells. The cosmic codes of evolving “transubstantiation” are to Christian religion evidence . . .
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August 09, 2009 01:00 AM EDT --
Conflicts and differences will always be; they are never successfully resolved by violence, but intentional symbiosis can mitigate them. The difference between symbiosis and violence is the difference . . .
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August 01, 2009 11:24 PM EDT --
“If the first generations that assimilated Darwin's thought were concerned with the origin of species, our own is concerned in an unprecedented way with the extinction of species and, above . . .
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June 27, 2009 09:12 AM EDT --
"Common Ground" is the stuff light (energy) makes (made), what Einstein calls mc². Energy (E) is the means of communication and correlation of everything with everything.
Evolution . . .
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May 30, 2009 04:19 AM EDT --
Life's continuum is the evolved podium on which pro-life/ pro-choice differences can be reconciled. Earth's large-scale aborting of life, human and ecological, and the great anxiety over abortion now . . .
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